SOME DOMESTI FLIGHTS RESUM FROM KABUL AIRPORT; QATA FLIES IN AID

Some domestic fli have resumed at Afghanist international airport in Ka with the state-run Ari Afghan Airline opera flights to three provinces.

Shershah Stor, the airli station manager at the airp told The Associated Pres Sunday that the flights t place on Saturday to wes Herat, southern Kandahar northern Balkh provinces said the flights were condu without a functioning ra system at the airport.

Stor said three more fli were scheduled on Sunda the same provinces.

The airport in Kabul an surrounding areas had tur into a hub of chaos ever s the Taliban took contro Afghanistan in mid-aug with thousands of pe crowding and jostling to ge board one of numerous eva tion flights to flee Taliban r

A team of Qatari and Tur technicians had arrived Kabul last week to help res operations at the airport, w the United Nations says is cial to providing the warcountry with humanita assistance. It remains to seen, however, whether commercial airlines wil willing to offer service.

Qatar, meanwhile, has fl humanitarian aid into K and said it will operate d aid flights to Afghanistan the next few days, provi much-needed supplies foll ing a hiatus in much wes aid due to Taliban’s take last month.

Qatar has emerged as a interlocutor between wes nations and the Taliban, a developing close ties with militant group through hos its political office since 20

A Qatari aid flight carr medical supplies and f products arrived in Kabu Saturday and Qatari amba dor to Afghanistan Saeed Mubarak al Khayareen wa the airport for its arrival, Gulf state’s foreign mini said.

Qatar has helped reopen airport, which closed for eral days after the Un States-led airlift of its citiz Afghans and other natio ended last month.

Half of Afghanistan’s 40 lion people, including 10 lion children, required hum itarian assistance as of the of this year, the Internati Organization for Migra said late last month, ad that needs were expecte rise.